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Horshader Community Development
Newsletter September 2016
Community Consultation
Hello from the Development Manager
Thank you to all who took part in our community survey and attended the consultation day.
We hope that you found the presentations from some of the Horshader grant holders both interesting and
inspirational. We look forward to assisting more projects and ideas over the coming months and years.
The results from the community consultation prioritised the following ideas under each of the themes:
Transport-more organised community trips
Health - exercise classes and team sports activities
Housing-care home; sheltered housing
Social-events co-ordinator
Economy-training events for crofting
Arts, culture and heritage-Loch a Bhaile development; museum refurbishment; fishing trips; more
signage
Environmental-planting of shrubs and flowers along the roadside
Youth-undecided, (previous playpark—common grazing’s group has been asked to identify land)
Trust projects-landscaping around trust offices; painting trust offices; interpretation panel near tur-
bine; investigate potential for solar panels to assist with running costs of the trust offices.
We appreciate all your feedback and ideas and will present each home with a short report outlining how
these ideas will be progressed.
Contact Horshader: 701225
Angela Macleod:
Finlay Maclennan:
Donna Dorris:
Jim McCartney:
Mairi Graham:
David Mackay:
Don Macdonald:
Community Grant Fund 2016
The following awards have been
made from the Horshader Communi-
ty Fund in 2016:
Iain Macarthur was awarded
a training grant to pay for a
weaving mentor –Iain Mackay
Hebrides Alpha support unit
in Coll was assisted with run-
ning costs
Western Isles Community
Care Forum was awarded
funding towards carers training
Enable Western Isles to-
wards organising a respite trip
Carloway Community Asso-
ciation towards costs of pro-
ducing the Carloway newslet-
ter
Two hardship grants were
awarded in the community
Heb Celt Festival towards
promotion of a concert held in
Shawbost during Festival
week
Lewis and Harris Piping So-
ciety received funding to-
wards a prize hamper
Clann a Latha an De towards
costs of annual mainland trip
Urras Dualchas Shiaboist
were awarded funding towards
the costs of designs for their
building
Westside Agricultural Show
towards hiring a marquee, tan-
noy system and livestock barri-
ers
Shawbost Sheepdog Trials
towards costs of their annual
event
Sgoil Shiaboist towards costs of a mainland residen-
tial trip
Shawbost Gardening Group towards costs of annual
flower tubs and maintenance of their community gardens
Carloway Agricultural Show for costs in producing the
show programme
Westside Runners and Fitness Club to assist in costs
of organising the first Hebrides triathlon
An Eathar towards the purchase of safety equipment
and training. The group also got funding towards costs of
refurbishing a building into a boatshed for the Yackydoola
Please contact Angela for more
information on the Community
Fund.
Oil Bulk Buying group
We now have a core group of 17 interested in the oil bulk buy-
ing scheme which will allow us to purchase oil at a reduced
rate. The simplest way forward is for a planned delivery sys-
tem where the supplier will top up each home on a regular
basis. This is a 1 year pilot scheme which we will review at
the end. If you would like to join the scheme, please contact
us for more details on how to join.
Grow Your Own The Grow Your Own project ran a series of Gardening Workshops for new and novice gardeners through June and
July. The aim of the workshops was to encourage people interested in growing their own fruit and vegetables and
tackling their own gardens by drawing on local knowledgeable and experienced gardeners. We covered a range of
subjects from keeping pests away, preparing soil to homemade liquid plant feed and a visit to the Lethad Ard open
garden in Carloway. We would like to thank our speakers for leading informative and interesting sessions; thanks to
Angus Seoig, Kirsty Macdonald, Stuart Oakley, Peter Harlington and Barry Shelby.
Practical Cookery Workshops
Practical cookery workshops started again on the 22nd
August. The first 4 Mondays will be with Allan Macritchie,
head chef at Borve House. The dates are (22nd Aug), 29th
August, 5th and 12th September.
Growing in the polytunnels we have...
…...tomatoes, spring onions, potatoes, grapes, leeks, carrots and cabbage.
We welcome David Murdo back to work on a phased return and extend a big thank you to
Frank Stark who has been filling in for him during his sick leave. Frank will be with us until
the end of September when David Murdo should be back to full capacity. Our thanks also
goes to Brenda Stewart and the other volunteers who have been assisting at the polytun-
nels.
Thanks too to Seumas Macleod who was with us at over the summer holidays.
Forthcoming dates (subject to change):
19th Sept-10th October with Manoj Sharma
7th Nov-28th Nov with Marcin Juszczak
9th Jan-30th Jan with Alasdair Macleod
6th Feb-21st Feb with Kenny Mackay
We also hope to have a cookery demo in
December with a top chef!
Harvest
This year, the time between each harvest
has been longer. Resulting from feedback,
we will be concentrating on growing vegeta-
bles which make up a staple diet. Between
September and December, cabbage, car-
rots, parsnips, beetroot and potatoes will be
grown. Call in at the polytunnels or give the
office a ring for more information.
Welcome to our latest director Diane Smith
Frank Stark busy in
the polytunnels!
Seumas Macleod
hard at work.
Diane Smith is from South Shawbost. She stud-
ied Hospitality at Lews Castle College and Glas-
gow College of Food Technology and then in
2001 graduated from Lews Castle College with
an HND in Business Administration. Diane has
been involved with various community and
school groups over the years and is currently
the Treasurer of Urras Dualchas Shiaboist
(Shawbost Heritage Trust) and works as the As-
sistant Operations Manager for the Catering and
Cleaning Section of Comhairle nan Eilean Siar.
Diane was on the steering group set up in 2003
to look at the possibility of building the commu-
nity owned turbine on common grazing land. We
look forward to Diane’s contribution to HCD.
Welcome to three new staff!
The Horshader minibus
Our minibus has had a busy summer with
runs to the opening of the new Museum in
Stornoway, to the Barvas Show, from Dou-
ne Braes to the Carloway Show dance and
over to the Lewis Carnival. Pictured are
some happy passengers headed for the
Carnival!
We are organising some community outings
in the coming months including visits to:
Comunn Eachdraidh Nis
Tarbert, Harris
Stornoway
Uig Community Centre (and Comunn
Eachdraidh)
We always encourage the community to
use the minibus for any social activities or to
get to and from appointments. With Autumn
and Winter coming, we will be arranging
trips to Stornoway to go to the cinema, to
hospital appointments and visits, to the
sports centre. We welcome your ideas too.
Flyers will be circulated soon with further
information so keep your eyes peeled….
The minibus and the Mod!
Our minibus is being used by the Barra
Choir from Wednesday 19th October until
the 22nd October of Mod week.
If there are competitions you would like to
attend, the minibus will do runs to and
from Stornoway on the Monday and
Tuesday of that week.
Let us know if you are interested in
reserving a seat on the bus on those days.
Mairi Graham has joined us as a
book keeper (part time.) Mairi
works two and a half days with
Horshader and the remainder of
the week with the Galson Estate.
Donna Dorris has joined us as
admin officer. Donna is from
High Borve and is full time with
us.
Angela Gardner is
our new cleaner.
Angela lives in
Grinnivat and is with
us 4 hours a week.
Welcome to all our
new staff!
New garage for the minibus
The minibus garage is now complete. It will also be a
safe place for our handyman Don to store his tools.
The garage will also serve as a workshop so daily
chores and jobs can be undertaken out of the bad
weather.
Don has had a very busy summer and will be taking
well deserved holidays in November but remember
to contact us for all your handyman jobs before then.
The Loom Project
In March 2016, Horshader Community Development took delivery of 3 new Rapier looms
from GTM. These have been leased out to 3 members of our community who are now
employed as weavers. Similar to other trusts, we have had technical issues with the
looms, which we will continue to pursue with GTM.
We are delighted to be in a position to bring employment to the area.
Risort Power Generation Ltd.
David Wright has provided an update on the turbine:
Our turbine continues to perform well, with no issues,
other than those relating to turbine maintenance and
SSE outages. We lost one day due to a routine in-
spection by Enercon and SSE informed us of an out-
age 6th Aug – 10th Aug, the work was finished ahead
of schedule and we lost 3 days instead of 5. There
were a further 2 days lost due to a grid fault at
Callanish.
Diary Dates!
Cookery Classes
19th Sept-10th October with Manoj Sharma
7th Nov-28th Nov with Marcin Juszczak
9th Jan-30th Jan with Alasdair Macleod
6th Feb-21st Feb with Kenny Mackay
Family Fun day in September with RSPB
Mod week (w/b) 17th October
RSPB Presentation on Agricultural Environment Scheme, October
RSPB Workshop on Agricultural Environment Scheme, November
Christmas stall 26th November, all welcome
Horshader Santas Grotto 2nd December, all welcome
HCD AGM, December
Next Horshader newsletter due December 2016!
Horshader Directors
David Wright (chairman), Di Hesketh, Angus Macarthur, Eileen Macdon-
ald, Mairi Maclean, Catriona Macleod, Iain Macarthur, Diane Smith
Project Evaluation Group members
Didi Macarthur, Ian Murray, Ian Macarthur, Ian Mackay, Flora Macleod,
Kathleen Murray